Alexandra Daw

“The noises of society fending off despair with routine.”
― Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

“Sarah sat on the bed, her large, freckled hand storking the golden down on our baby's had. 'You can change your mind.' I'd tried to imagine it a hundred different ways. 'It's not just my mind that would need to change,' I said.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“Was it more obscene to say it, to write it, or to set it in type? On the breath it could taken by a breeze or crowded out by chatter; it could be misheard or ignored. On the page it was a real thing. It had been caught and pinned to a board, its letters spread in a particular way so that anyone who saw it would know what it was.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“At times he felt he was living his very largest life, as though his soul were billowing before him like a huge and rippling sail.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything